Synopses & Reviews
Black Spring is vintage Miller. Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in
Tropic of Cancer and
Tropic of Capricorn, he sucks us along at his mad, free-associating pace as he reverberates between America and Paris, transporting us from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to sun-splashed French cafés and squalid Paris flats; from a winter night, pure as ammonia, to a dream where a woman's body has the strong white aroma of sorrow.
Miller writes with an incomparable hard glee, shifting effortlessly from Vergil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort, to the beauty of a statue defaced during a carnival. He captures like no one else the blending of people and the cities they inhabit, and Black Spring coheres in a seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York.
Review
"In Black Spring the old charmer is back at work, charming again. 'This man, this skull, this music' have good things in them, like a honeycomb. Henry Miller...reflects the light of joy and writes most sweetly." The New York Times Book Review
Review
"Miller the raconteur...is incomparable, doing his best, in ribald fashion, to laugh the Victorian Age to extinction." New Yorker
Synopsis
Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one else the blending of people and the cities they inhabit.
About the Author
Miller, a writer, travelled through Southwest U.S. and Alaska with money from his father that was intended to finance him through Cornell. He moved to France in 1930 for 9 years and wrote Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.